A JAPANESE GOSU SATSUMA INCENSE BURNER AND COVER

A JAPANESE GOSU SATSUMA INCENSE BURNER AND COVER, KORO

MEIJI 1868-1912

The bulbous body with tall handles and raised on three mythical beast-mask feet, decorated with panels containing a ho-ho bird flying over flowers and rockwork to one side, with chrysanthemum and peonies to the other, the shoulder with brocade designs, chrysanthemum flowerheads and paulownia mon, the lid with similar decoration and topped with a shishi bearing its teeth, the base inscribed Satsuma yaki Tomonobu, 25cm overall. (2)